Zeo from Geo

Best made plans...

2009-08-27T07:07:00.000-07:00

I had planned to spend my summer break leveling both PLD and BRD. Well, I've got PLD to 58 and BRD hasn't been touched. Normally I'd push ahead with this as much as possible but I've been sidetracked by merits. I figured that my WAR is good in most merit situations, although I'm not 100% comfortable using it at birds. I felt that my Dragoon could potentially be superior at the bird camp. So I decided to..

Use WAR at events that need heavy dd and non bird camp merits.

Use DRG at bird merit camp.

DRG is now full merit and I'm working on getting a pimp version of the Fay Lance. I managed to get a sidegrade augment of DMG 3 - SRT 2 - Dex 2. I have another Fay Lance in inventory and will endeavour to beat those augments. Using the damage calculator I've fine tuned the gear I have on DRG and have been slightly surprised by two things. 1. Askar body > Heca body at bird camp. 2. Cuchulain's mantle coming out ahead of Forager's at tp gain as well as ws. I know that neither is the case if I tried it on WAR.

Got my highest ever ws against a merit mob today using Drakesbane.

The LS I belong to SpiritOfTheWolf is still going strong. It has a real mix of characters and is well led. We are continuously successful at various tiers of ZNM and have skilled members in every department. We decided to take on Byakko for long term ls member Falk and won a very smooth fight. Now Falk has probably the best piece of armour in the game Byakko's Haidate. I've purchased 2 pop sets for Susaku and hopefully we can do them whenever we have a quieter slot on a Sat night.

A couple of screenshots

This guy NEVER waves back!

I should have checked there was water before I took the dive.

2009-07-28T11:27:00.000-07:00

Kuptastic!

Walrus

2009-07-26T11:15:00.000-07:00

Ok

BLM Returns

I have revived my BLM. Initially I retired my BLM and sold all the gear because i barely touched it the previous year. I have been busy levelling all sorts of jobs and BLM didn't have a look in. That was until our ls does regular ZNM fights most saturday nights, where a BLM is very useful. Armed gears in particular. So BLM is all geared up again. I have the sorcerer's latent active, although I no longer have the mp merits (which I can live without) All my macros were saved in a folder and the advent of elemental grips and one or two pieces have made BLM fun again.

Nyzul Isle

I must say that our weekly Nyzul Isle static is a weekly highlight. Excellent company. Nice gear and we know exactly what each other will do at any given time. We are all closing in on getting full sets of main gear and also have a variety of sub gear items. One thing I like about it is that we don't always lot when we are allowed. If someone is lagging behind in luck, others will pass when they don't need to. We have full confidence, that we will get what we need and being greedy shouldn't figure. Easy to say that now I and most of the ls have askar bloody head! Kudos to Aims, Steve, Marie, Mike and Jose for the fun. Honourable mention to Feli for seamlessly repping people on the occasion that we need to.

Fighting Byakko again

We did this fight so Falk (Sjiodjodjiodadadoodee) could get B Haidate. Was a smooth fight. Lots of newish people to gods and excellent drops. Was fun setting up a stun cycle with 3 other BLM. reminded me of when I first joined a Sky LS (GodblessYou) doing that fight has given me the idea that I could buy some pop items for Suzaku and have a chance at getting N feet, one of the few things i can realistically get to make my WAR better. Well, there are several people who are aiming to get sky this week, so It would be nice to let them have a go at killing a god and perhaps lot on an abj by us killing Suzy.

WALRUS

Are bloody ugly and evade like a Warrior!

Vepion

The man with the lowest PC skills out of anyone i've came across from his age group. Being 'flamboyant' is no bloody excuse ya radge!

Bollocks

The best word ever invented

2009-04-25T13:57:00.000-07:00

Misery?

2009-03-25T12:09:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I wonder why people bother. My pet peeve /moan at the moment is about people moaning or whining or forever feeling hard done by. - Yes I'm contradicting myself by moaning about the moaners, but hopefully I can do it with a bit of brusque style.

half full or half empty? Which kind of person are you?

Things people moan about

1. Not having enough time to endgame, farm, level etc.

We all live lives that use up time. I choose to watch very little in the way of TV and do what I can when I can. SE have introduced so much in last 2-3 yrs that we have no right to moan. Exp is so much easier to get nowadays. Sub dnc if you want to solo and more exp when you kill ep mobs. Campaign is another thing that we can get easy exp from. Never mind the fact that with ToA, FoV and Level synch, levelling a job has never been easier.

Nyzul isle is 30 mins a run. There are always shouts for it.

ZNM is a lot easier to get pops for than Sky ever was. Some good gear from it and good experience for players who haven't wet their feet in endgame up to now.

Assault is 30 mins a run. Some nice stuff to be had there and most are fun and doable.

Limbus, Sky, Sea, Dynamis, Einenenejjjaaar and salvage are all other avenues.

2. Not getting the gear they want.

Who does get everything they want? Nurturing a job was never meant to be an overnight thing. You can be solid at your job without breaking the bank in most cases. Many people have a 'main' job to put extra special effort into.

3. People who moan about people trying to become better at their main job.

How dare people parse results!!! How dare people seek out excellence!!! How dare people be good at their job!!! If people feel insecure about that then tough. I don't give a shit. To be honest I'd far rather be in a lol LS party any day than a 30k /hr party with strangers. But I'm not going to feel guilty about being decent at my job and being able to contribute to high chains and high exp. Give me PUP, PUP, anything anything anything anything any day if it LS.

4. People who moan about not getting drops.

We all suffer bad luck sometimes. I always assume I won't get anything. That way it's all a bonus.

5. People who moan about skilling up due to Level Synch.

Skilling up isn't that hard. I'd say i spent a max of 10 rhrs doing additional skilling up on my last 75 i took up. Some may take more but I'd rather have that than the party system we had before.

6. People who moan about jobs...

Every job can be good for different reasons.

PLD - beef merchant whahay!

SAM - Sexy dd

WAR - shit job.... It the only job that is absolute ... haggis!

COR - Cool hat

RDM - Another cool hat

DRG - I always think of 'Drag Queen' when I think of this

SMN - Has it's very own cuddly toys

PUP - I want to do a PUP burn some day

BLU - Janko - need I say more

BRD - The I-pod of the FFXI gaming world

RNG - bird death

MNK - Wail away to your heart's content

DRK - Goth

WHM - Samaratins of the game

SCH - My rl job kinda

NIN - A boxer rather than a slugger - full of win

BST - Seigfried and Roy of the game

Come on folks, we playing the coolest game in the world. A game that if you do something it MATTERS. If you achieve something it MATTERS. Characters that you can care about; a community that is strong and stable. If you are lucky to be a part of a LS filled with skilled nice people then it turns it from a game to a place to meet friends. I'm in a LS just like that and feel priveliged to be part of it and this game...

...but

........

...........I wish WAR could evade better than a Barn Door

Sleep deprivation and smiling through it.

2009-03-22T06:18:00.000-07:00

Being from EU, it often means that if we wish to participate in end-game activity, we have to get up / stay up for 2-5 am starts. I've grown accustomed to this, although it does mean I generally only do one end-game activity at a time. None of this ... Limbus - Mon, Dynamis - Tue, Sky farm -Wed, Nyzul Isle - Fri etc etc etc. I'm not complaining or whining about it, because I love the game and I have fun with the people I play with and speak shit with. 'If you don't like, don't do' is my motto. (well, one of them) Whining gets you knowhere, moaning gets you knowhere.

That being said... I was almost 90 mins late for a Tinnin fight yesterday. I bow my head in shame and say sorry to a 'super dooper' BLU Janko (and everyone else who were there forming) Then we fought a floor on Nyzul Isle and lost due to us collectively not being 'on the ball'. Second night of mega early rise is much harder than the first. I've now got my alarm clock out loft.

Nyzul Isle is still my favourite thing in the game. We got 3/4 wins on Fri with a Denali head and an Askar legs drop. Good to see Drimer get something from this. She'd always win first prize for the cutest exhaltations of joy in the group. We'll still be doing this for a while. To be honest I'd like to end up being 5/5 on all three types of gear.

Maat... This is a long term goal. No longer will it be level to 75 > full merit, levelanotherjobto75 > full merit etc. I have a lot of levelling to do, but i can see it happening. Although i have a sneaking feeling that i won't be the first in the LS to get it.... ahem.... someone else beginning with Z...

Random nonsense

2009-03-15T03:35:00.000-07:00

Newbs and new people to the LS

Us as a LS have been lucky enough to have several brand new players join us. Old veterans (Like many of the LS) love having new people to help. As long as they bear in mind that the main thing in the game is to have fun. Obtaining good gear etc is part of the fun and part of something we can all help each other with. But... It is our duty to let new people avoid some of the pitfalls or mistakes that can easily happen when you are new to a game.

1. Farming - We all have to do it. We have all done it. Quite often we can seek while doing it. Don't ask us for gil, ask us how to make gil.

2. Gearing up our jobs - No, you don't have to have +1 of everything, but try and fill the slots with stuff that is appropriate to your job. If in doubt as to what stats are best for what job? Ask, and ye shall recieve.

3. Gimping your job - A touchy one, but you are better off farming gil to get what you need, than gimping your job by not having an essential spell/tool/scroll etc. An example of this is Ninja 37+ You must have Utsi Ni or you are leeching off your party and not able to do what it 'says on the box'.

4. Skype - Several ls members regularly join skype. This is fun and it also helps when doing a lot of stuff. Don't feel like it's part of a leet club that you can't get in. If you want in skype, say and you can join in the .... revelry.

5. can't think of anything else and looking back, No 4 doesn't fit in with the title.

Notes

Whether Zer likes it or not, being poked inside Nyzul Isle got us a 4/4 run with 3 nice gear drops and a good weapon drop. Just relies on her being poked enough.

btw - Well done to all the Swift belt owners out their. I understand you went 3/3 - awesome job

Cats / Walrus / Moose /poke-aga III

2009-03-08T05:18:00.000-07:00

Been bloody ages since I updated this and I promise to fill this with a load of shit every week. Friday nights - well, 4.30 am to be exact, is Nyzul Isle night and our wonderful static GOT TO FLOOR 100! - Ranks as one of my favourite moments in game. In fact we went 4/4 from 80-100 in one fell swoop. Now we can spend Friday nights bemoaning the fact that we get a zillion chariots, with gears and undead every second floor. Feels good to be there and it all goes down to Zer, Drimer, Carste, Soul and Vepion who make it easy and fun. Skype has added a whole new dimension to getting things done.

Saturday nights are ZNM nights and we have won every fight that we've attempted. Including several tier 3 bosses. I've had 2 pops at armed gears but no Aurum feet have dropped so far. The nice shiny new Tomoe is nice though. It has also been good to get some old friends involved with this alongside my new friends. Ascen, Perc, Soul, Tef, Poten, Darce are all members of SOTW and take varying participation in game. Ascen will ALWAYS help anyone at the drop of a hat and Darce has grown up as a PLD and he needs to know that there have been appreciative comments about his tanking ability during events (spoken in skype). Was great to see Sekhemet and Imbris both get involved a bit.

My BLM has been retired and my RDM semi retired. It kinda sad, but my focus has been more on COR, WAR and other dd recently. I'd consider WAR my main job.

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What we do..

2008-08-25T05:18:00.001-07:00

I've been thinking about what we enjoy about this game. It seems that there are loads of different ways to enjoy playing FFXI. Some people love camping HNM's. Some love crafting. Some love doing quests. I personally don't like any of the aforementioned three. I've been rank 8 Bastok for nearly 4 years and have no great urgency to move onwards from there. I've been stuck on the same TOA Mission for ages and have no impulse to get that moving either.

I enjoy taking a job and making it as good as possible within the confines that I play the game. I like to take a job, bring it to 75 then merit it till it is capped in all areas. I like to build up my skill, equipment and management of every job I play. I like exp....

BLM - My first Job - Full merit and often consider it as my main as i have some excellent gear on it. I feel very comfortable in playing BLM at any endgame event.

RDM - My second job to 75 - Full merit and pretty much retired. Full merit and decent gear, but very rarely play it. You never know, I may take it out again.

WAR - This is the job that I enjoy most and play most. It is a versatile damage dealer. I have this at full merit and have some excellent gear on it. The only things I could add to it are some endgame rare ex or something mega expensive like Speed belt.. This is the job I merit with and very rarely get out parsed on it. Trying for Askar body and head are my endgame goals right now. I'm patient though.

NIN - Full merit. Probably the job I take to LS events most. I really enjoy NIN and like the way they do a lot of damage but can survive for a long time.

SAM - My most recent job to 75 - Working on merits and have got a lot already. Once I'm happy with my SAM I may take it to events or merit.

Campaign is another thing which I enjoy doing. I just managed to get top rank on this today and spent some points on WS shoes for my NIN with str +3. Saves me buying Marine boots.

I enjoy seeing friends and LS members doing well and enjoy helping on any related LS activity. I'm very glad to see some old friends restart the game again. Aethyr, Sekehemet and Imbris have all started up again and have all joined the social LS I belong to. I really hope they stick with it. I'm sad to see my old friend favre leave the game and wish him all the best in his RL endeavours.

2008-07-21T10:01:00.000-07:00

I must say that I'm enjoying the game right now. Got My SAM to 75. Did plenty of campaign in doing so and am 3/4 the way through the ranks. SAM/WHM seems to work best, as having access to buffs and reraise is invaluable in campaign.
One thing that does piss me off a bit is the people who spend the whole battle casting BRD songs making no effort to contribute to the battle. I can see SE doing something about this very quickly.

My social LS seems to be going well. I'd recommend anyone who wants a LS of skilled people , who love to help to come join us. It has also been great to see some of my oldest friends join the LS. Here is a pic of a recent get together in Jeuno.

Been doing a lot of meriting on my WAR just now (SAM needs it's stuff..) MY WAR kicks a lot of arse just now. I'm always fine tuning things - macros, equip, food etc. Every detail counts. Hoping that Askar body (When I get it) will be a plus. If not the 'ol' Hauberk +1 will do it's usual fantastic job.

The old days

2008-07-09T12:45:00.000-07:00

Was in what was described as a lol pt earlier tonight. Zeralya, Standpoint, myself, Favre and Darce. Darce is a 72 pld trying to eak a way towards 75 so we thought we'd kill stuff in the Mire. Fav and Darce I've known for 4 years + and Zer and Stand are two great people from my LS SpiritOftheWolf. It got me to thinking about how stuff has changed so much in 4 years.

1. How BLM went from one of the most sought after jobs to one of the least.
2. How WAR went from a bad rep to a rep as one of the best exp DD shops on the go.
3. How exp was so much harder to get 4 yrs ago.
4. How we miss some old friends who still pop in from time to time - Sol Ascen, Poten, Perc, Tef etc
5. How the game should be fun and not a job.
6. How my first love Job BLM is a job I have some great gear on but never play.
7. How fun exp that's slow is better than fast exp with arseholes.
8. How there is so much less RMT
9. How we have so much great info for us to use now
10. How this game NEVER.. EVER ENDS! : )

Nyzul Isle and levelling SAM

2008-06-18T13:59:00.000-07:00

At the minute I'm enjoying my time doing Nyzul Isle assault 7 runs a week. In a very nice group of skilled
players, led by Daveee. That guys really knows this assault inside out. Managed to get Askar feet so far and we are up to floor 65. Askar body at level 80 is the prize I'm working towards. Here is an example of a boss mob in Nyzul Isle.

Levelling SAM has been fun. Got to 72 with the help of a lot of Campaign Battles. Feel of the LS is pretty good just now and it good to see some old faces venture in from time to time. Uggy pendant run with lowish numbers was good. Carste got his pendant.

Keeping the fires burning

2008-05-05T01:48:00.000-07:00

Three main thrusts in the game just now.

1. Levelling COR with LS static.. smooth leveling and really nice to party with people who know their stuff and you can rely on not to go 'mental' if something goes amiss from time to time.
2. Levelling SAM. Hit or miss regarding invites or seeing enough jobs to make a party. Seems to be a lack of tanks atm. Managed to gateher some very nice gear for other jobs that can be used for SAM e.g. Rajas, Toreador Ring, Fuma, Kote, Hauby etc. NOT got a Soboro which is a pain, but the other gear I have ensures good solid parse results. Got my eye on Hagun though^^
3. Nyzul Isle Assault - Got to floor 20 and saw first gear drop. Going through a sharp learning curve but I see this as a long term endgame focus. Due to it, a)Being fun b)Good gear for war/sam nin/mnk and mages c) it not being overly time consuming.

Long time no blog...

2008-04-07T06:55:00.000-07:00

Nuff said..

Done a lot of different things in game over the last year since I last blogged. Most of them can be seen on the 'done' list on the goals section to the right. Found myself a new LS home 'The Brotherhood' I like it there and feel comfortable with everyone. Been in a Sunday static with COR with folks from the LS which is going well. Got O-Hat with them on a oh so smooth run that began with 9 people. Good skills people!

Had a go at Jormy when I helped a friend of mine Darkfelicity. Was a lot of fun. The LS he's in is called Desvoltare.

Here are a couple of random pics that need a place.

Pimp Hat

2007-01-02T00:25:00.000-08:00

I've been levelling RDM without af hat recently. It has been ok but I keep missing times others in the ls manage to do it. I got up in the morning and decided to go to Jeuno and look out for random /sh for help. I just wanted to help some unknown person get something, because I'm such a nice person : ) Then I see a /sh asking for help getting RDM af hat... there's karma for you. I was pretty much the only dd out of a mainly whm and rdm set up. Fights were pretty straight forward and the hat was mine.

Camped Enkelados hoping to get some gil. Got him x 3 but 0/3 drops this time round.

NOT chain infinity..........

2006-12-29T16:28:00.000-08:00

Well it highest chain I've ever had. It could have gone on..and on..and on if other parties didn't cmp in nearby area. Never mind, it was fun.

Help Trinitie get Dark Spark. I can't believe how easy that mob is nowadays.

Music in my ears atm..

Slayer
Amy Winehouse
Bowie
Kasabian

Getting merits quickly as WAR

2006-12-25T10:36:00.000-08:00

Many of you know me as a Black Mage. That is the first job I got to 75 and it is the job that stays No 1 in my heart... But when it comes to getting merits and having some damage dealing fun, WAR is an awesome job. I needed 22k exp to get my last Aggressor merit earlier today and got an invite within seconds of putting flag up. This is even quicker than getting invites as RDM and I won't even comment on the invite rate for a lvl 75 BLM /sigh.

Today I got the 22k within 2 hours. This is no-where near the quickest exp I've ever had as WAR but gives an example of what you can usually get if there are available mobs and some decent dmg dealers and support in you party. Having a BRD pulling etc is the thing that can make numbers sky high. I didn't have one in this party. So that fullfills one of the goals I set for myself. All main merits for WAR.

Oh boy.. RDM is so much fun

2006-12-23T23:57:00.000-08:00

Today I decided to try and get my level 73 RDM a little bit closer to 75. I must say that I much prefer levelling/exp with BLM and WAR. Maybe I'm just a lazy sod, but RDM is sooo much work for sooo little recognition. It's true what they say, "The best Red Mages are the ones you don't notice." My RDM has pretty good gear all apart from the lack of pimp hat. I suppose having 3/3 Zenith, Moldy, all torques, all Staffs 7/8 HQ, Yigit feet and other assorted nonsense will have to suffice until I get my lazy arse into gear and do the necessary deeds that will get me the ph.